North and South: Football and Irish Partition
The partition of Ireland is reflected in the separateness and rivalry of its two international football teams. Sathesh Alagappan looks at the …
Book review: The lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish scholar, diplomat, public intellectual
By Tom Garvin Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2016 Reviewer: Ruairí Ó hAodha ‘Anyone can make history, only a great man can write …
Book review: Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s fight for Irish independence
By Terry Golway Irish Academic press 2015. Reviewer: Ruairí Ó hAodha Terry Golway is a prominent US political commentator, who in this …
Today in Irish History – The First Dáil meets and the Soloheadbeg Ambush – 21 January 1919
The declaration of the Irish Republic and first day of the War of Independence. By John Dorney On January 21st 1919, the First …
Book Review: The Irish Civil War and Society, Politics Class and Conflict
By Gavin Foster Published by Palgrave MacMillan, London 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Irish history is often inward looking, almost navel gazing, obsessed …
Weapons of the Irish Revolution Part III – The Civil War 1922-23
John Dorney wraps up a three part series with a look at the weapons of the Irish Civil War. See Part I …
Weapons of the Irish Revolution, Part II, The War of Independence 1919-21
By John Dorney. See Part I, Weapons of the Irish Revolution 1914-16 here. Conventionally, the conflict known as the Irish War of …